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Philip Vera Cruz, a revolutionary Filipino worker, was a founding member and vice president of the United Farm Workers union. He led some of America’s most spectacular labor movement activities in Hawaii and in the fields and canneries of the Pacific Coast that laid the groundwork for the UFW.

Grace Lee Boggs, a daughter of Chinese immigrants, was an activist involved with tenant organizing, black power movements, and founding member of Detroit Asian Political Alliance.

Yuri Kochiyama is a grassroots civil rights activist who involved herself in a range of issues from international political prisoner rights, nuclear disarmament to Japanese redress for World War II internment